From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1037C8476 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E96BC433EF; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:09:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1671804567; bh=/faS2TA/UFNT5gRFa1SBNTgmSqPE0EN7xs34H8GrcqY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=qUMrZbj0niPvvbkxQJTaU+akV4SNzL6wHHfTtDp1RuUWM9YTOJWLNHr3VIbs/KGZh nnR6nRpuU/pWgl+WeTJOcXbfQEh3DiXkV0dk5+oJZw3vCeRFNntmhu5sCAxG/jVIzR MHShAMQW4V2+4KXeJyoFSqkSaGq0mcVMKSYs1lzrkiREQXYl5V4ek0RN6+vUcdmYAp RQUCGAd8h+0P/sP+KUUGmKpFZJatR+TFdbEdYXiy4O1Nmx5GSg95wEJloHq0T87EC0 YqX6Q2ESUVNef/gNt1cXnO4j2A0PUyZ+9b18lHwW8r8jeEY6PaMmQO+qaMTgB7MALa wX/itAzNwJ9yg== Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:09:26 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Icenowy Zheng Cc: Andre Przywara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Jernej Skrabec , robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, wens@csie.org, samuel@sholland.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes Message-ID: References: <20221217000937.41115-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20221217000937.41115-8-sashal@kernel.org> <20221220000115.19c152fe@slackpad.lan> <671ce02325703fa3e4969ba66e014001e6b83314.camel@icenowy.me> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <671ce02325703fa3e4969ba66e014001e6b83314.camel@icenowy.me> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 02:48:29PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote: >在 2022-12-20星期二的 00:01 +0000，Andre Przywara写道： >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:09:35 -0500 >> Sasha Levin wrote: >> >> > From: Andre Przywara >> > >> > [ Upstream commit f40cf244c3feb4e1a442f8029b691add2c65b3ab ] >> >> This is not really a backport candidate: >> - This is not a fix, but a new feature. >> - This relies on the H616 USB PHY support patch, which will be only >> in >>   v6.2 (and won't be backported). I'll go ahead and drop it. >> - DT backports are generally not useful to begin with, and should >>   actually not be necessary anyway. > >DT changes include fixes and new features. New features are not useful, >but fixes are useful. > >This specific change is a new feature one, not a fix one though. Right - this is a similar issue to PCI/USB/etc IDs, or quirks - we try and backport patches that enable new hardware to work (proerly) with drivers that already exist in the kernel. -- Thanks, Sasha